Thursday, October 30, 2025

Google opens fire at evil AI

Special attack unit targets ‘threat actors’
as smart machine wars begin to ramp up


Intelligence about bad actors using AI-boosted malware isn’t good enough, warns a top Google security executive. Foreseeing that an evil AI nightmare is looming for business and governments, Google is already using AI to hunt down and neutralize evil AI activities even before they are launched, she says.

“We look for partners to help us find opportunities to actually do takedowns and disrupt threat actor activity,” Sandra Joyce, vice president of Google’s Global Threat Intelligence Group, told experts at the Cipher Brief Threat Conference at Sea Island, Georgia.

Tho AI-enhanced threats on the whole were still manageable, some nasty intrusions have already occurred. In one case, a finance officer paid out $25 million after being deceived by a deepfake chief financial officer via a video call, Joyce said.

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Google opens fire at evil AI